Aaaarrrrrr

[gdw]

Today be Talk Like a Pirate Day!

[BumbleBeeDave]

Ye beats me to it, ya scurvy dog! Ye be a lily-livered squiffy fer makin me look like a son o' a biscuit eater!

Off the plank wi' ya! ARRRRRR!!!!

Scurvy Cap'n Bee

[Archibald]

Good idea! The shortage of pirates through non-sustainable hunting techniques is a direct cause of global warming. For evidence of this irrefutable fact, please refer to the graph below!

Arrrrgh!

[davids]

The camp my family worked at this summer has many traditions. Sometimes they recombine in strange and wonderful ways. Hence, Pirate Haiku (as written by an assortment of campers and staff):

Haikus and pirates.
What a bad combination -
Pirates can’t count.

Black flag overhead.
Oops! Smiley face not a skull.
No plunder today.

Avast me harties!
Swab the deck, you scabrous dogs!
I love pirate talk.

Families going out.
Canoes, kayaks, and now boats.
Oh our own pirate fleet.

A joke for you Dave;
What is a pirate haiku?
HARRRRIBLE, matey!

Such shiny varnish;
The wood grain is just ship shape.
I love my peg let.

Mice in the swim shack
Matey. I suppose it could be much worse.
They could be pie-rats.

Art of plank walking.
Goggles, mask, fins, and, er, don’t
Forget scuba gear.

Pirates all around.
Short, tall, young, old, boy and girl.
But where's Johnny Depp?

A soft evening breeze
Or an apple-felling gale.
Pirates sail them all.

Red, Dead, Atlantic,
Our galley sails all seven
Tasting every port.

A pirate Haiku?
Can pirates count to seven?
One, two, three, four, ARR!

A hook, a pegleg
An eyepatch and parrot.
What makes a pirate?

How to spell pirates?
P-I-ARRR!-A-T-E-S.
Like you didn't know.

A corsair destined
To sail on the seven seas.
Pirate's life for me.

[William]

Arrrr! Ya scurvy looking buck toothed barnicle. It be that time ah yearr again to be swillin ta grog and chasing ta wenches!!!! :beer:





Bloody William Flint

[72gmc]

arrrrr! i be startin' me day with scurvy diapers n' coffee that tastes like a barnacle's butt!

[zeroking17]

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[ClutchCargo]

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so why not the Elefantino Pirate?


davids ... those haiku poems were a hoot! thanks for sharing.




Write on!

[Bradford]

A.Word.A.Day--Jolly Roger
Pronunciation Sound Clip RealAudio

This week's theme: words related to pirates.

Jolly Roger (JOL-ee ROJ-uhr) noun

The pirates' flag, showing a white skull and crossbones on a black background. Also known as the blackjack or black flag.

[The origin of the name Jolly Roger is uncertain.]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus.

-Guest Wordsmith John (Ol' Chumbucket) Baur (chumbucketATtalklikeapirate.com)

"Three men were eventually spotted, not in a three-master with a Jolly Roger flapping in the breeze, but in powerboat near Bayvista Lane." Jonathan Jenkins; Pirates on the High ... Lake? Toronto Sun (Canada); Sep 9, 2006.

[Bradford]

A note -- I've often heard people talk about pirates' "cockney accents."
Wrong! The stereotypical pirate has a Cornish accent, based on the
performance of Long John Silver by actor Robert Newton in the 1950 Disney
version of "Treasure Island". He was from Cornwall, and his over-the-top
performance and native accent are the reason people think that's what a
pirate sounded like. Of course, pirates came from all nationalities. But
the pop culture image is firmly embedded, and Robert Newton is the reason
why.

(John Baur worked 23 years in the newspaper business and two years as a
university science writer before casting his lot as a pirate author and
performer. He and Summers are co-authors of the book "Pirattitude!")


buccaneer (buk-uh-NEER) noun

1. An unscrupulous adventurer in politics, business, etc.

2. A pirate.

[From French boucanier (buccaneer, barbecuer, hunter of wild ox),
from boucan (a frame for smoking meat), from Tupi mukem.]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=buccaneer

Buccaneer comes from a French adaptation of a Carib Indian word bukan, a
way of slow-cooking meat over a low fire on a grill. The first bouncaniers
were interlopers in "Spain's" Caribbean, and the Spaniards tried to drive
them out. It was only too easy for England to recruit the buccaneers into
attacking Spanish interests. So modern day barbecuers, with their Webber
gas grills and comical aprons, are actually descendants of the classic
Caribbean pirates.

"[Greg] Palast's book is packed with groundbreaking new information about
the corruption of empire, the lies of our leaders and the raiding of the
treasury by crony capitalists and corporate buccaneers."
John Nichols; Giving 'em Hell - And the Truth; The Capital Times
(Madison, Wisconsin); Sep 7, 2006.